LouisianaBill repeals plan for moving New Orleans water board employees
The bill repeals a 2024 law section that required state and New Orleans civil service commissions to plan a possible transfer of board employees.
What it does
The bill repeals a section of a 2024 law concerning the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board.
The state and city civil service commissions would no longer have to develop a plan to move Sewerage and Water Board employees into state civil service.
Argument forEnding the transfer-planning requirement could spare the commissions and board from preparing a plan for moving board employees into state civil service.
Argument againstRemoving the commissions’ planning requirement could leave employees with less clarity about how a possible move to state civil service would work.
More detail
Repeals Section 2 of the 2024 law. The repealed section concerns the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board and employee transfers to state civil service. The repeal takes effect under the effective-date rule in this bill.
Removes the requirement for the state and New Orleans civil service commissions to develop a plan for transferring board employees to state civil service. The requirement applies to the State Civil Service Commission and the City of New Orleans Civil Service Commission, and concerns board employees. This repeal takes effect under the effective-date rule in this bill.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Jun 23Becomes Act No. 918 without the Governor's signature.Latest
- Jun 23Effective date 6/16/26
- May 26Sent to the Governor for executive approval.To Governor
- May 25Received from the Senate without amendments.Minor
- May 25Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.Minor
- May 25Signed by the President of the Senate.
- May 21Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 35 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded FINAL PASSAGE (#1116). Result: pass.Upper
- May 13Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.Minor
- May 12Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- May 11Reported favorably.Minor
- Apr 27Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Local and Municipal Affairs.Minor
- Apr 22Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 98, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded FINAL PASSAGE (#667). Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 22Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.Minor
- Apr 21Scheduled for floor debate on 04/22/2026.
- Apr 20Read by title, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.Minor
- Apr 16Reported favorably (13-0).Minor
- Mar 18Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Municipal, Parochial and Cultural Affairs.Minor
- Mar 17Read by title. Lies over under the rules.
- Feb 27First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
- Feb 25Prefiled. To be introduced at a later date.Introduced
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